Hospitals And Maternity Hospitals

A maternity hospital is any institution or place used for the reception and care, temporary or continuous, of one of more women during pregnancy, while awaiting confinement, during confinement, or for one month or less after confinement.

Amend. Sup. III to R. M. C., sec. 1102.

License Required

It shall be unlawful to open and conduct any hospital as above defined, in the city of Chicago, without first obtaining a license.

Sec. 1003.

Illegal Confinements

It shall be unlawful for any physician, midwife or nurse to take a woman into his own home for confinement or to confine her in any place except a licensed maternity hospital.

Sec. 1109e.

Penalty

Any person opening, conducting or managing a hospital as herein defined, without first having obtained a license therefor, or in violation of this ordinance, shall be fined from $1 to $200 for each offense.

Sec. 1109f.